Market Surveillance Analyst
Barclays · Posted Oct 9
Banking, credit card, corporate, investment banking, and wealth management services
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About the role
The Surveillance team at Barclays monitors market activity and employee communications to protect market integrity and identify potential market abuse, misconduct, or regulatory breaches. The role covers trade and communications surveillance across global markets and multiple asset classes, including Fixed Income, Rates, Credit, FX, Equities, and Derivatives. The Market Surveillance Analyst conducts daily alert reviews and investigations, escalates potential concerns, and supports enhancement of surveillance controls and tools.
What you will do
- Conduct daily reviews and investigations of automated trade and communications surveillance alerts across global markets and businesses.
- Analyse trading activity and employee communications to identify potential indicators of market abuse, including manipulation, insider dealing, front running, inappropriate information sharing, and other forms of misconduct.
- Identify and escalate potential breaches of regulatory requirements and internal policies in accordance with established governance procedures.
- Engage with trading desks, Compliance teams, and control functions to gather information and assess surveillance observations.
- Assess and provide feedback on the efficiency and effectiveness of existing surveillance controls and identify opportunities for improvement.
- Actively contribute to the enhancement of current surveillance alerts, exception reports, and supporting procedures, and support the development of new surveillance tools and monitoring capabilities.
- Promote consistency in surveillance practices through collaboration and knowledge sharing with global surveillance teams.
- Maintain a strong understanding of applicable regulations, market conduct requirements, communications surveillance obligations, and internal policies.
- Monitoring market activities continuously, including order flows, prices, trading volumes and communications to identify potential irregularities or market misconduct.
- Conducting in-depth investigations to gather evidence and assess the risk of market manipulation, insider trading, or other misconduct.
- Business support in projects related to the firm’s market surveillance framework.
- Regulatory query and internal/external audit support.
- Provision of accurate and timely reports to regulatory authorities, internal stakeholders, and management regarding market surveillance activities, incidents, and trends.
- Execution of appropriate controls aligned to the Barclays control framework and related firm-wide standards.
- Control environment support in relation to data quality, model effectiveness and efficiency.
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- Bachelor’s degree.
- Knowledge of market abuse regulations, conduct risk requirements, and regulatory expectations across global markets.
- Understanding of multiple asset classes, including Fixed Income, Rates, Credit, FX, Equities, and Derivatives.
- Good understanding of trade and communications surveillance methodologies, market abuse risks, and control frameworks.
- Strong analytical and investigative skills, with the ability to assess large volumes of trading, communications, and surveillance data and identify potential risks.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Strong stakeholder management and relationship-building capabilities.
- Sound judgement and decision-making skills, with the ability to escalate potential concerns appropriately.
- Familiarity with surveillance platforms, communications monitoring tools, case management systems, and data analytics tools.
Preferred qualifications
- Experience working with trade surveillance and/or communications surveillance processes.
- Exposure to surveillance platforms, communications monitoring tools, case management systems, or data analytics tools.
- Ability to identify opportunities to improve surveillance controls, procedures, and monitoring capabilities.
- Experience collaborating with global or cross-functional teams in a Surveillance, Compliance, Market Conduct, or risk environment.
Benefits and support
- Compensation and benefits are detailed in the job posting
About Barclays
Barclays is a British multinational universal bank that provides consumer, corporate, and investment banking, as well as wealth management services. Tracing its origins back to 1690 in London, the institution operates globally to serve millions of retail and institutional clients. The bank leverages cutting-edge technology and digital platforms to drive operational efficiency across its international network.
- Industry
- Banking
- Company size
- 93000+ employees
- Founded
- 1690
- Location
- London, United Kingdom
- Funding stage
- Public Company
Leadership
Group Chief Executive
Group Finance Director
Group Chief Operating Officer
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